A word of Warning, continued
In spite of the fact that we presently reside in the “Time of the End” when the book (Daniel’s prophecy concerning the time of the end) has been unsealed and opened (Dan 12:4, 9, 10; Rev 10:2) many still (even among those begotten of the Lord’s spirit) willingly chose to remain in ignorance of the times and seasons and of impending events soon to transpire. The general opinion is that the study of prophecy is of little value as in comparisons with simply studying the Gospels and epistles and attempting to conform one’s life to such, besides say such, the Lord’s return is still a long ways off.
Question: how did they arrive at this conclusion, viz. that the Lord’s Second Advent was still a long ways off?
Answer: The only way in which this could accurately be discerned for sure is through a thorough study of prophecy in connection with a knowledge of where precisely we stand on the stream of time, which implies a thorough study of the True Bible Chronology, two subjects which go hand and hand and of which most have only given at the very least a passing glimpse.
As for the professing church they have already been given over to the lie, a lie of their own choosing. Having chosen to “suppress the truth in unrighteousness” (Rom 1:18), that is to disregard the plain statements of scripture (including prophecy) they have instead been turned to fables, the vain babblings of men and to their delusional teachings concerning the “Time of the End” and etc., the apostasy, the Antichrist, the Second Advent and all the various events surrounding it.
As was stated in Part 31 of our study of 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2, Satan has already cultured much of Christendom to be expecting as certain the very things he plans to use as deceptions.
He is not called the Father of lies for nothing, the Master Deceiver; although his great master work the Papacy received a mortal wound during the Reformation when through the preaching’s of Luther, Zwingli and others, it was showed to be the “mystery of iniquity” “The Man of Sin,” “The Antichrist,” nevertheless since that time that wound has healed to a great extent by the craftiness of the Adversary whereby he has succeeded in luring the Reformers into the same bondage as he had Papacy.
Shortly following the Reformation, “Reformation and cleansing for a time ceased, and, instead of progressing with the cleansing, the reformers gave attention to organizing themselves, and to revamping and re-polishing many of the old papal dogmas, at first so loudly condemned. Thus did Satan decoy the reformers into the very “harlotry” (union of church and state) which they had denounced in the Church of Rome. And thus the deadly wound which Papacy had received was for a time healed (Rev. 13:3), for how could the Reformers any longer use the Sword of the Spirit against Papacy as a church-state organization, when they themselves were the same (and in essence became an Image of the Beast)?”
As soon as the reformers had pointed out that the Papacy was the Antichrist predicted, the Adversary went to work right away through his deluded servants devising another lie to throw attention off the Papacy, his great master work, and as such the idea was planted that the real (?) Antichrist would appear in the distant future (our day), and that he (an individual rather than it, the Papacy, a system of error) would be received by the Jews and would rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.” Amazingly, this erroneous teaching has become the most popular view in our day, even among the Protestant Churches, whose fathers were the Reformers themselves! Alas if they were alive today what would they think?
Continued with next post.
In spite of the fact that we presently reside in the “Time of the End” when the book (Daniel’s prophecy concerning the time of the end) has been unsealed and opened (Dan 12:4, 9, 10; Rev 10:2) many still (even among those begotten of the Lord’s spirit) willingly chose to remain in ignorance of the times and seasons and of impending events soon to transpire. The general opinion is that the study of prophecy is of little value as in comparisons with simply studying the Gospels and epistles and attempting to conform one’s life to such, besides say such, the Lord’s return is still a long ways off.
Question: how did they arrive at this conclusion, viz. that the Lord’s Second Advent was still a long ways off?
Answer: The only way in which this could accurately be discerned for sure is through a thorough study of prophecy in connection with a knowledge of where precisely we stand on the stream of time, which implies a thorough study of the True Bible Chronology, two subjects which go hand and hand and of which most have only given at the very least a passing glimpse.
As for the professing church they have already been given over to the lie, a lie of their own choosing. Having chosen to “suppress the truth in unrighteousness” (Rom 1:18), that is to disregard the plain statements of scripture (including prophecy) they have instead been turned to fables, the vain babblings of men and to their delusional teachings concerning the “Time of the End” and etc., the apostasy, the Antichrist, the Second Advent and all the various events surrounding it.
As was stated in Part 31 of our study of 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2, Satan has already cultured much of Christendom to be expecting as certain the very things he plans to use as deceptions.
He is not called the Father of lies for nothing, the Master Deceiver; although his great master work the Papacy received a mortal wound during the Reformation when through the preaching’s of Luther, Zwingli and others, it was showed to be the “mystery of iniquity” “The Man of Sin,” “The Antichrist,” nevertheless since that time that wound has healed to a great extent by the craftiness of the Adversary whereby he has succeeded in luring the Reformers into the same bondage as he had Papacy.
Shortly following the Reformation, “Reformation and cleansing for a time ceased, and, instead of progressing with the cleansing, the reformers gave attention to organizing themselves, and to revamping and re-polishing many of the old papal dogmas, at first so loudly condemned. Thus did Satan decoy the reformers into the very “harlotry” (union of church and state) which they had denounced in the Church of Rome. And thus the deadly wound which Papacy had received was for a time healed (Rev. 13:3), for how could the Reformers any longer use the Sword of the Spirit against Papacy as a church-state organization, when they themselves were the same (and in essence became an Image of the Beast)?”
As soon as the reformers had pointed out that the Papacy was the Antichrist predicted, the Adversary went to work right away through his deluded servants devising another lie to throw attention off the Papacy, his great master work, and as such the idea was planted that the real (?) Antichrist would appear in the distant future (our day), and that he (an individual rather than it, the Papacy, a system of error) would be received by the Jews and would rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.” Amazingly, this erroneous teaching has become the most popular view in our day, even among the Protestant Churches, whose fathers were the Reformers themselves! Alas if they were alive today what would they think?
Continued with next post.
